We are having this conversation now : the times of AIDS cultural production / Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juhasz, Alexandra, author.

Kerr, Theodore, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease) in mass media.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States.

AIDS (Disease)--United States--Historiography.

Health services accessibility--Political aspects--United States.

Health services accessibility.

AIDS activists--United States.

AIDS activists.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"In 2014, veteran HIV/AIDS activists and media makers Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore (Ted) Kerr noticed a resurgence of mainstream interest in representing white gay male experiences of "the AIDS crisis" of the 1980s and early 1990s. This plethora of representations followed a long silence around HIV/AIDS (which the authors call the Second Silence, the First Silence indicating the environment of fear, homophobia, and racism that characterized the pandemic's early days). In We Are Having This Conversation Now, Juhasz and Kerr center conversation as a crucial method for sharing intergenerational activist knowledge and honoring the robust media ecology that has always surrounded HIV/AIDS. Identifying what was missing from Crisis Revisitation films like Dallas Buyers Club and How to Survive a Plague-the foundation of collectivism, intersectionality and feminism that the AIDS movement was built on-Juhasz and Kerr seek to reintroduce these commitments as crucial frameworks for continued conversation about HIV/AIDS."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The times of AIDS: Timeline 1

Introduction: We are starting this conversation, again

Trigger: What we see

Trigger: Seeing tape in time

Trigger: Being triggered together

Trigger: Being triggered in times

Trigger: Being triggered by absence

Trigger: How to have an AIDS memorial in an epidemic

A script for AIDS workers: Timeline 2

Silence + object

Silence + art

Silence + video

Silence + undetectability

Silence + conversation

Silence + inter(action)

Silence + transformation

Conclusion: We are beginning this conversation, again

Sources and influences: Timeline 3.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Juhasz, Alexandra. We are having this conversation now.

ISBN:

9781478023081

1478023082

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.